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Sylvie Brosseau is a Professor at Waseda University's School of Political Science and Economics, specializing in urban nature, public space, and landscape architecture with a focus on Japanese cities. Her academic career spans comparative studies between Paris and Tokyo, and she has contributed extensively to journals like Journal of Liberal Arts and Cahiers Thématiques.
- Education: Master's degree from Ecole d'architecture de Paris-Belleville, Institut de géographie, Paris Sorbonne
- Professional Affiliations: European Association for Japanese Studies, Société Française des Études Japonaises
Her research explores the metamorphosis of rural territories (satoyama) into urban parks, the role of forests in Japanese cities, and the symbolic representation of famous sites (meisho) in landscape imagination. She has led projects like Japarchi and conducted fieldwork on Tokyo's maritime parks.
Brosseau's publications reveal consistent themes in urban landscape evolution, cultural continuity in public spaces, and the role of nature in Japanese city planning. She emphasizes interdisciplinary analysis through historical, sociological, and aesthetic lenses.
As an educator, she teaches film analysis through seminars on directors like Jean-Luc Godard, focusing on spatial representation in cinema. Her courses at Waseda include Intensive French Seminars and interdisciplinary graduation thesis advising.
- International Collaborations: Research at Versailles National School of Advanced Landscape Studies and France INALCO
- Research Interests: Urban ecology, cultural geography, film spatial analysis
